Thompson-Gary Family Cemetery
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Thompson-Gary Family Cemetery

Also known as Gary Cemetery

Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia, USA

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    Coordinates: 33.13262, -82.51734
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In the archives in Louisville, the County Seat, that cemetery is listed as the Gary Cemetery. The archives also list a Thompson Cemetery with almost identical coordinates in the area, & specify two graves with names. We found only one cemetery, but Lewis [Thompson] says there were other Thompsons close by in the old days & does not doubt there could be a second one, but not his Thompson's.

Of course Lewis [Thompson] & his family refer to the cemetery where Nicholas is buried as the Thompson Family Cemetery. The Thompsons & the Dixons (a Thompson daughter married a Dixon) have been looking after that cemetery for all these years. Two Dixon sisters hold title to it, 30'X30'-all that is left of what was a 400 acre farm in the years just after the Civil War, owned by Nicholas Gary & his son-in-law Wm. Robt. Thompson.
E-Mail 12/04/2003 Wiley Williams To W. G. Ray

Commemorative stones for the known burials here are placed in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia. The actual burials are in unmarked graves in the Thompson-Gary Cemetery, Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia.
WGR 8/28/2010







In the archives in Louisville, the County Seat, that cemetery is listed as the Gary Cemetery. The archives also list a Thompson Cemetery with almost identical coordinates in the area, & specify two graves with names. We found only one cemetery, but Lewis [Thompson] says there were other Thompsons close by in the old days & does not doubt there could be a second one, but not his Thompson's.

Of course Lewis [Thompson] & his family refer to the cemetery where Nicholas is buried as the Thompson Family Cemetery. The Thompsons & the Dixons (a Thompson daughter married a Dixon) have been looking after that cemetery for all these years. Two Dixon sisters hold title to it, 30'X30'-all that is left of what was a 400 acre farm in the years just after the Civil War, owned by Nicholas Gary & his son-in-law Wm. Robt. Thompson.
E-Mail 12/04/2003 Wiley Williams To W. G. Ray

Commemorative stones for the known burials here are placed in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia. The actual burials are in unmarked graves in the Thompson-Gary Cemetery, Avera, Jefferson County, Georgia.
WGR 8/28/2010







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  • Added: 28 Aug 2010
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2367816